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New law to change cops' role, image
The law will empower the police for this role, giving them the necessary legal status and funds.
NEW DELHI: Policeman as a participant in community welfare: This new image, radically different from what the British had envisaged when they enacted the Police Act, 1861, is to be the cornerstone of the new law governing the country's one million-plus police force.
The law will empower the police for this role, giving them the necessary legal status and funds needed to play a proactive role in community work.
The rationale is that this would be an investment in public goodwill and help the force in gathering intelligence.
While law and order may remain a state subject, the new law to govern the police force envisages a federal role for them due to the growing security threat perceptions that do not recognise state boundaries.
Forty-nine of the recommendations made by a committee that submitted its report last December are being adopted. The framers of the law are also taking cue from PM Manmohan Singh's address to the National Conference of Superintendents of Police last week wherein he said the new law should respect the society's diversity and secular values, "a managerial philosophy and a value system to match to make policeperson "someone in whom the common man can place trust".
The law now on the anvil is also aimed at helping the police revamp their structure. For one, the ubiquitous constable is about to get an identity of his/her own. The law would define his/her role clearly. This has become essential since that the constable forms was 80% of the force.
The complexity of the task of law-keeping and investigation is being recognised in that the two are to be separated. Better lawyers who would get better fees and rules that would involve the victim, treating the crime as one committed, not merely against the victim but against the state are also sought to be woven into the law.
The law will empower the police for this role, giving them the necessary legal status and funds needed to play a proactive role in community work.
The rationale is that this would be an investment in public goodwill and help the force in gathering intelligence.
While law and order may remain a state subject, the new law to govern the police force envisages a federal role for them due to the growing security threat perceptions that do not recognise state boundaries.
For instance, sources in home ministry point out, the Centre's para-military forces are engaged in fighting militancy in J&K and the North-East. Each time there is a serious threat, these forces are rushed in, whether the crisis is a natural calamity or a man-made one like a riot or a political agitation.The Naxal threat that has spread to 14 states also calls for a holistic approach, the sources say.
Forty-nine of the recommendations made by a committee that submitted its report last December are being adopted. The framers of the law are also taking cue from PM Manmohan Singh's address to the National Conference of Superintendents of Police last week wherein he said the new law should respect the society's diversity and secular values, "a managerial philosophy and a value system to match to make policeperson "someone in whom the common man can place trust".
The law now on the anvil is also aimed at helping the police revamp their structure. For one, the ubiquitous constable is about to get an identity of his/her own. The law would define his/her role clearly. This has become essential since that the constable forms was 80% of the force.
The complexity of the task of law-keeping and investigation is being recognised in that the two are to be separated. Better lawyers who would get better fees and rules that would involve the victim, treating the crime as one committed, not merely against the victim but against the state are also sought to be woven into the law.
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